Understanding a phishing attack

25 February 2013 – Bangalore

I opened my mailbox today and found a lot of messages from friends saying that they got a twitter DM (Direct Message) from me, with a phishing link. I opened twitter and looked at sent messages and found a lot of them but none of them were sent by me. I was sure that my twitter accont was compromised.

Understanding the phishing attack

One of the tinyurl used in one of the DMs was http://bit.ly/YQPCXA. I’ve wanted to find what it is doing.